#stanley fish

[pjbifun]

[pjbifun]

"The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”

― Stanley Fish

[mumblingsage]

What happens when a sentence goes out of control or was never under control in the first place is that it ceases being a sentence and returns to the state when its parts made up nothing more cohesive than a random list. ... How can you tell when that is happening? Just ask. Scrutinize every part of your sentence and ask, "What does it go with?" or "What does it support?" or "What information does it give about some other part?" or "What is it referring to?" - all variations of the master question, "How does it fit into the sentence's logical structure?" If at any point you can't come up with an answer, you know you're in trouble and you know what the trouble is or at least where it is located, and you can begin to go about addressing it.

-Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

[mumblingsage]

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired affect has been achieved. That is why the prescriptive advice you often get in books like Strunk and White's The Elements of Style--write short sentences, be direct, don't get lost in a maze of piled-up clauses, avoid the passive voice, place yourself in the background, employ figures of speech sparingly--is useful only in relation to some purposes, and unfortunate in relation to others. The first think to ask when writing a sentence is "What am I trying to do?"

-Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

[kammartinez]

Law, Lies, and Hollywood: Stanley Fish’s Cinematic Jurisprudence | Los Angeles Review of Books

Julie Stone Peters examines “Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art” by Stanley Fish.

[kamreadsandrecs]

Law, Lies, and Hollywood: Stanley Fish’s Cinematic Jurisprudence | Los Angeles Review of Books

Julie Stone Peters examines “Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art” by Stanley Fish.

[fabiansteinhauer]

Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish ist ein entweder katholischer Name oder aber ein Künstlername. Wo Fleisch ist, da ist auch Fisch. Wo weder Fleisch noch Fisch ist, da sind Kraut und Rüben.

[power-chords]

—Stanley Fish, Surprised By Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, 1967

Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.

—Saul Alinsky, 1971